Enver Pasha

[ en-ver pah-shah ]

noun

1. 1881–1922, Turkish soldier and statesman.

Enver Pasha

/ ˈɛnvə ˈpɑːʃə /

noun

1. Enver Pasha18811922MTurkishMILITARY: soldierPOLITICS: statesman 1881–1922, Turkish soldier and leader of the Young Turks: minister of war (1914–18)

Example Sentences

“We used to have such leaders back in the good old days when there was Ho Chi Minh, Stalin, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao, Charles de Gaulle. People who had lifetime sinecures. Enver Pasha. Ceaușescu. Then we drifted off into this sort of wan land of bureaucratic leaders,” Schell said.

From The Guardian

Eşref’s most daring assignment came when Enver Pasha ordered him to deliver a shipment of gold and arms to the Ottoman army in Yemen, the province of the empire in the south of the Arabian peninsula that had been cut off due to the British-backed "Arab Revolt" in the west.

From Time

But the leaders of the Ottoman Empire, the key figures in the Committee for Union and Progress, specifically Talat Pasha, Enver Pasha, Doctor Behaeddin Shakir and associates such as Ziya Gokalp, were urbane Europeans.

From Salon

It was with great excitement that Enver Pasha, the most powerful of the triumvirate of Young Turks who ruled the Ottoman Empire, greeted the news that two German warships had sailed into neutral Turkish waters on August 10th 1914.

From Economist

There’s the moment in her Turkish class, just after Toumani has reluctantly admitted she’s Armenian, when a glamorous French student proudly announces that she lives in a mansion that once belonged to Enver Pasha — one of the chief architects of the genocide and thus a part of the “triumvirate of evil” that Toumani has been taught to fear and hate all her life.

From Washington Post